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ELEANOR A. OEMEROD — NOTES FOR 



Fig. 9. — Cecidomyia Tritici. 



11. Cecidomyia Tritici. Minute orange grub, occurring in some 

 numbers in flowers and chaff of wheat, and commonly known as 

 "red maggot." Very destructive, especially in white wheats. 



Fig. 10. — Sirex gigas. 



12. Sirex gigas. Pour- winged fly, about an inch and a half 

 long, colours black and yellow. Larva lives in fir timber. 



13. Asilus craibroniformis. Black and orange hairy two- 

 winged fly, about half an inch long. To be found in cattle- 

 pastures in hot weather. 



